BC-NH--New Hampshire News Digest, NH

Friday

Feb 1, 2013 at 2:15 PM

New Hampshire at 2 p.m.

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HEALTH OVERHAUL

CONCORD — A legislative committee that must approve how New Hampshire implements the federal health care overhaul law will have some new members when it meets next week. Led by Republicans who opposed the overhaul, the Legislature passed a law in 2011 requiring the state insurance department to get the approval of an oversight committee before making major changes under the law. The three House members who previously served on the committee will remain when the group meets on Monday, but three different senators were appointed Friday — Democrat Peggy Gilmore and Republicans Jeb Bradley and Andy Sanborn. By Holly Ramer.

ALSO GETTING ATTENTION:

— UNH LAW SCHOOL MERGER — The University of New Hampshire School of Law is well on its way to completing its merger with its namesake — UNH.

— ATTEMPTED ROBBERY-POWER OUTAGE — Police in Hampton, N.H., say a man who attempted to rob a gas station during a power outage ran away when he learned the safe couldn't be opened.

— ST MICHAEL'S-LAWSUIT — A judge has thrown out a libel lawsuit filed against two St. Michael's College journalism students by a man who submitted his name as a candidate in New Hampshire's 2012 presidential primary.

— HOTEL STABBING — New Hampshire's Attorney General says the 70-year-old woman stabbed to death at a Littleton hotel died of a stab wound to the neck.

— POND HOCKEY CLASSIC — The New England Pond Hockey Classic is carrying on in New Hampshire, in spite of the recent warm weather.

— FLOODING CONCERNS-NH — Rescue crews are keeping an eye on a river in Claremont, N.H., over flooding concerns, although the worst of the threat appears to be over.

— ABANDONED CHILDREN — Police in Newmarket, N.H., have arrested a woman after a neighbor found her two children locked outside of the house in freezing weather.

— ARMED MAN SEARCH — Police say a man arrested following a three-hour standoff at a home in Middleton, N.H., was homeless. They say 35-year-old Richard Penney lived in Middleton at one time.

— MOUNT WASHINGTON-RACES — Registration is open for two bicycle events that include New England's tallest mountain in the route.